Oxygen-deficient strontium cobaltate, SrCoO2.64.
Single crystals of strontium cobaltate, SrCoO(3-x), have been grown by the floating-zone method in an oxygen flow. The compound crystallizes with the cubic perovskite structure, with Pm-3m symmetry, as determined by X-ray diffraction. Refinement of the O-atom site occupancy yields the chemical composition SrCoO(2.64) [x = 0.36 (3)]. The anisotropic displacement ellipsoids of the O atoms suggest that their positional disorder occurs in a direction perpendicular to that of the Co-O bonds.